Hello,
If no backup job or other activity on the server, you can try and restart 
networker services and try again, also is this the first time you are 
seeing this error, does the pool have correct devices allocated ?
Have you updated any drivers recently ?
What does monitor tab log say about the operations  pending ? in the NMC.
Have you tried cmd line re-lable with extra vv to generate any relevant 
error ?
HTH



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[Networker] Tape drive says "monitoring"?






I have a Win2003 server, running NW 7.4 SP1, with a single LTO-4 tape 
drive. NW is showing the drive as "monitoring". My backup job won't run, 
claiming that I need to label a different tape (I got the dread "too many 
open files in system", for which no one has ever seemed to find an answer 
for). Problem is, I can't seem to re-label the current tape, as it says 
that it is "monitoring", whatever that means. And I have no other spares 
at that site, since the order for more tapes doesn't come in until later 
this week.


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